[24051] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.2.16: gnome
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Sep 11 21:46:31 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu
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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:46:29 -0400
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 18:37, Greg Hudson wrote:
> Logging in as root and running /srvd/install/athchanges should fix the
> machines.
Important note: you must actually log in as root to run athchanges.
Right now, if you su to root and run athchanges, the GConf part of it
won't work; the gconftool-2 invocations will die with something like:
** ERROR **: Owner of /tmp/session-ghudson-1401/orbit is not the current user
aborting...
Except that only the "aborting..." makes it through because we redirect
gconftool output to /dev/null.
This is why Alex's machine hadn't fully recovered.
> > How can users who are now having problems be put to rights?
"athrun release fixpanel" should do the trick, once the machine is
properly restored. (I'm surprised the automatic panel-fixing mechanism
didn't work; I haven't looked into that yet. But Alex's mail implied
that his panel looked wrong when he logged into other, properly working
machines, so clearly it didn't do the job.)
